De La Vergne Refrigerating MacHine Co. v. Stahl

JAMES, Chief Justice".

It appears from testimony before the jury that appellant was engaged in building an ice tank for a brewery, and while its employes were engaged in inserting rivets through the tank, and while defendant was sitting on the floor under the tank and bearing down on the sledge hammer, while the riveters were bradding them down on top with rivet hammers, a chip of steel flew off the rivet hammer and went into his eye, putting it out. His part of the work was to hold the sledge hammer against the rivets, while the riveters were bradding them down on top. He had been at this…